A folk singer has targeted Donald Trump in a savage parody of an iconic Scottish song.
Champion singer Iona Fyfe, from Aberdeenshire, put together the mash up of ‘Donald Where’s Your Troosers’ to mock the outgoing president.
She was helped by songwriter Mark Russell who rewrote the words to the classic Andy Stewart tune with some hilarious lines.
The version has been viewed more than 100,000 times on Facebook and has gone viral on Twitter after support from Scottish comedy star Janey Godley.
The song doesn’t hold back in its criticism for Trump, who is officially being replaced today with the inauguration of Joe Biden.
The chorus includes the words: “Oh what a fraud, oh what a cheat, drain the swamp, take back the street, head to the hills and send some tweets, Donald’s now the loser.”
Iona is more used to sing serious Scottish folk songs - in 2018 she won Scots Singer of the Year at the MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards when she was described as “one of the best Scotland has to offer.”
But she jumped at the chance to record the anti-Trump ditty, having lived in the president’s shadow, in Aberdeenshire, in recent years.
Speaking to the BBC this morning Iona said: “It was shared by the lovely Janey Godley, so that kind of spiked it off and on Facebook it’s had 100,000 views which is mental.
“The response has been largely positive which is good.
“Some people say ‘oh I remember Donald Whir’s Your Troosers’ in school and some people are more political with their comments but positive which is nice.”
When it was pointed out that Trump may be able to hear her song, but not respond to it because of his Twitter ban, she said: “Yeh. Trump is not going to be able to retweet that one!”
Iona also said that Trump’s involvement with the North East community has spurred many local artists into creating new work.
She added: “There’s been a lot of creative responses to him with his mum being Mary MacLeod from Stornaway - Karine Polwart wrote an amazing song called ‘I Burn But I Am Not Consumed’ and there’s been a lot of art that’s been created over the last four years.”
Iona is delighted that the song has generated a lot of interest in Scottish traditional music.
She said: “I love these parodies of Scots songs because they bring Scots songs back into the main stream.
“Folk music was the mainstream and of course nowadays it’s not so it’s interesting to see how parodies and sea shanties have come to the fore in the last few weeks.”
